Kistage's Preschool Arts Adventure Announces Winter Session

Village Theatre KIDSTAGE's Preschool Arts Adventures is now registering for the winter session. This two-day-a-week program offers an enriching, creative learning environment for your preschool aged child to embark on a journey of imagination and discovery.

Arts Adventures uses an arts-based teaching structure and child-centered learning environment, where the emphasis is on the process, allowing children to think and solve problems creatively. The arts of dance, music, visual art, drama, and literature are natural disciplines that help children grow through experience and find joyful, positive, and varied ways to express themselves with confidence.

Professional instructors will guide students in the exploration and appreciation of the arts, with preschool social and academic skills integrated into the process.

Children will have opportunities to engage their mind, body, and imagination, while creating new connections within their dynamic world, nurturing the "whole child." Related walking field trips, such as attending age-appropriate Village Theatre Pied Piper presentations, sculpture walks, and museum visits will enhance this experience and reinforce cognitive development.

Life skills are cemented by "doing" and children learn best through hands-on involvement. What an extraordinary gift we can give our children by allowing them to experience life through the arts.

EVERETT KIDSTAGE PRESCHOOL ARTS ADVENTURES
at the Everett Performing Arts Center, 2710 Wetmore Avenue, Everett, WA

Preschool Arts Adventures
(Students should be four years of age by January 1, 2010. Younger students allowed with permission.)
Winter Session dates: January 27-March 26, 2008
Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Tuition: $450 (Tuition includes child's admission to select Pied Piper theatre productions.)

Payment plans are available for all KIDSTAGE programs and financial assistance is available to those who qualify. Parents can receive a 10 percent discount when registering more than one student from the same family or when registering for more than one class. One discount per family. Each registered student will also receive one half-price single ticket to any Village Theatre Mainstage production. Registration forms are available online at www.villagetheatre.org or by calling Village Theatre's Youth Education office at (425) 257-6371.

A complete listing of KIDSTAGE classes available in Everett are listed on the Village Theatre website: http://www.villagetheatre.org/ks_classes_Winter09_epac.shtml. 

About Village Theatre KIDSTAGE:
Designed to encourage teamwork, personal integrity, self-esteem, and a life-long appreciation for live theatre,
KIDSTAGE is a year-round performing arts training program in Issaquah and Everett for young people ages 3-20. KIDSTAGE students participate in classes, workshops and full-scale KIDSTAGE productions. All performances are by KIDSTAGE students and classes are taught by professional theatrical instructors.

About Village Theatre
Village Theatre is a leading producer of musical theatre in the Pacific Northwest. What began in 1979 with the vision of a small group of dedicated theatre artists has grown into one of the region's best-attended resident theatres, with over 18,000 subscribers to the current season and 165,000 projected total attendance, youth education programs serving over 54,000 young people, families, and schools annually, and a nationally recognized program that has enabled the development of over 80 new musicals. Serving an expanding and diverse community, Village Theatre has experienced phenomenal growth in recent years with the start of our contract as the resident performing and management company at the Everett Performing Arts Center in 1998.

Mission of Village Theatre:
· To be a regionally recognized and nationally influential center of excellence in family theatre
· To promote a season of top quality productions
· To commission and produce new musicals that achieve national exposure
· To train young people in theatre skills for career opportunities and enriched lives
· To develop a broad based appreciation for live theatre
· To promote positive values through art

KIDSTAGE is made possible, in part, by City of Issaquah, Everett Cultural Commission, Fluke, Kobe Foundation, Snohomish County Tourism, Tulalip Tribes, US Bancorp, and Washington State Arts Commission.

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